mayor would you like to proceed yes please good evening this is the meeting of the B Highlands mayor and Council regular meeting on Wednesday March 5th 2025 the notice requirements provided for in the open public meetings act have been satisfied notice of this meeting was properly
given by transmission to the asber park press in the two Riv times and by posting at the burough of Highlands municipal building and filing with the bur clerk all on January 1 2025 items listed on the agenda are subject to change please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America and to
the republ for stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I will now do roll call council member sanes uh here Council chac here Council M here council president sheski here mayor ban here thank you first we
have approval minutes February 19 2025 meeting minutes I will offer them I'll second council member svant yes Council chac yes Council Mel yes council president Shi yes mayor ban yes motion carries to approve February 19 2025
meeting minutes next we have February 19 2025 executive session minutes I'll second though council member svantes yes counc council member chillac yes Council melck yes Council presi yes mayor buan yes
motion carries to approve February 19 2025 executive session minutes next we have public hearing on proposed ordinance 0252 amending schedule a of the burough of Highland salary ordinance does anyone have uh anyone from the public have any questions on
comments on this ordinance seeing none I will close the public portion and I'm looking for an offering oh I'll second council member sanes yes Council M cha yes Council Mel yes Council peski
yes mayor berine yes motion carries 0252 passed on second or final reading next we have consent agenda mayor would you like me to read the resolutions by title yes please R 25067 authorizing refund of tax overpayments R
25068 cancel tax over payments r269 pledging sustainable land use R 25070 approving contract agreement with Dynamic testing services for drug and alcohol testing services r271 authorizing submission of strategic
plan for municipal Alliance grant for fiscal year 2026 r272 appointing member to the highlands Housing Authority Board of Commissioners r273 appointing Deputy Emergency Management coordinator
r274 authorizing shared services is agreement between the bur of Highlands and the burough of sebrite for the provision of lifeguard operations from the burough of sebrite R 2575 authorizing payment of bills r25076 authorizing the award of a
non-fair and open contract for professional planning Services pertaining to the Burrow's master plan re-examination report R 25077 accepting donation of police dog safety equipment um I would like to offer the
consent agenda and I would like to thank the um montavo family for this donation uh which is for a um a heating alarm system for the um for the police dog cult so when it gets too hot in the
vehicle it sounds an alarm and uh his officer will know to get him out of the car so I just need a second I'll second that's cool council member svanes yes Council M yes Council mik yes Council Pres
yes mayor bran yes motion carries to adopt resolutions R 25067 through r277 next we have reports um my report for February
um I'm trying to think of updates uh I could start with the Emergency Services uh where the first aid Squad had uh 20 calls five fire had 15 and police 638 for code enforcement um there were
11 summons six warnings 20 reports 20 inspections 11 permits and seven Oprah uh replies uh for the building department we had 64 inspections of which 51 passed
uh nine failed and four were not ready and 20 permits were issued uh for the current uh project updates uh the Portland Road Road draining improvements uh New Jersey National Gas finished their work in
February and that was relocating uh gas lines and uh the contractor will be working um from now through the spring so hopefully everything will be completed by May weather permitting uh the only other active uh
project we have going on is the planner is still uh working uh to get her report together for the uh the James T white clan pilot reboots um I'm going through all of the uh
qualitative and quantitative uh surveys so I will have a report that I will give to her so that she could fold that report into the um into that uh into that into her report um the online survey is still up so if you just
go uh to the burough website there is uh there is a link to that qualitative sorry quantitative study if you have not uh yet taken the survey um for projects that are planned for
25 um we had our uh bid opening for marine place that was on uh February 27th for Washington Avenue that went out to bid and uh we expect the bid opening on the 1 and for show drive that also that bid
opening will be on March 13th so once we have uh the final budget struck with the CFO we'll be able to see um how much money we can allocate to each of these projects going forward um and hopefully later on um in either March or April we
will have the final um plans for Frank Hall Park and for Overlook Park which we will bid together to uh hopefully get a better cost on that project and those are my only updates okay uh I only have a couple of updates
um the sewer punch list work is supposed to begin sometime midm March um and if you remember the Safe Streets for all grant that we got I think it was 20123 um with homeow Bradley Beach in the county is finally starting to move I
had a couple meetings with the uh with the County Planning Commission on that and col was just going to be helping us out administer that Grant and that's all I have okay does anyone from the table have anything that they'd like to
add okay there you go that's right coming up the Guinness uh run is Saturday the right and then the parade is the 22nd the 22nd that's right which is also the
125th anniversary birthday of islands nice okay a lot of things happening on the same day it might be it might be a little crazy the float the people that submit floats to do a happy birthday besides
St extra votes you should send to the Business Partnership for sure for sure okay we seeing no other comments um why don't we open up for the public individuals wishing to address the council shall be recognized by the
presiding officer and shall give their name address and the group of they represent although the council encourages public participation it reserves the right R presiding officer to terminate remarks to and or by any individual not in keeping with the conduct of a proper and efficient meeting if any individual refuses to
conduct themselves in a proper manner they will be removed from the meeting the council will not during the public portion of this meeting discuss matters involving unemployment appointment termination of employment negotiations terms and conditions of employment evaluation of the performance of promotion or displine of any specific or
perspective for current employee there's a 3 minute time limit for your comments okay hi this rv5 Washington Avenue I forget who we who I talked to the last time but can I get an update on the re-erecting of the no parking sign on
Washington Avenue I thought we did that this week no didn't happen okay I didn't see the yeah I came down there today okay it's the busy season right so
thank you thank you one other thing I did want to mention is that now that we're up and running and approved by uh the New Jersey um consumer affairs is uh we now have if you have your used medication to do a safe drop off right here in the building at the police
department downstairs um no uh liquids but any other um they're open 24 hours a day 365 days a year it's just like a little mailbox and it's it's right downstairs
at the police department dep yeah so anytime of day or night no questions are ever asked you could just put your prescription in there and uh we'll safe dispose of them that's great and that's all I
have so I guess I will make a motion to go into executive public portion close public portion close public portion absolutely thank you executive session
executive session will be held following the regular council meeting prior to each executive session the fal Council will convene an open session at which time a resolution will be adopted in accordance with njsa 10 col 4-13 no formal action will be taken during executive session resolution to
enter executive session the it resolved that the following portion of this meeting shall not be open to the public be it further resolved that private consideration is deemed required and is permitted because of the following noted exceptions set forth in the ACT litigation attorney client privilege areas in need of Redevelopment updates
the further resolve that anticipate that matters to be considered in private may be disclosed to the public at a later date when the need for privacy no longer exists I made the motion in Joan second do it Joan second all in favor thank you executive
s start at 7:14 712 thank you go and I will make a motion to um end the public meeting second all in favor I thank you meeting adjourned at 7:49 all right